Oded Rabinovitch

The Perraults

A Family of Letters in Early Modern France

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In The Perraults, Oded Rabinovitch takes the fascinating eponymous literary and scientific family as an entry point into the complex and rapidly changing world of early modern France. Today, the Perraults are best remembered for their canonical fairy tales, such as "Cinderella" and "Puss in Boots," most often attributed to Charles Perrault, one...

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 162mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781501729423
• ISBN-10: 150172942X
• Artikelnr.: 52154670

Autorenporträt

Oded Rabinovitch is lecturer in the Department of History at Tel Aviv University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Cast of Characters
Introduction
1. Representing a Family of Letters: Images of Authorship (1650-1750)
2. Finance and Mobility: Pierre Ascendant (1600-1660)
3. The Perraults in the Countryside: Viry and Literary Sociability
(1650-1680)
4. Failure in Finance and the Rise of Charles Perrault (1660-1680)
5. The Perraults and Versailles: Mediating Grandeur (1660-1700)
6. Claude Perrault and the Mechanics of Animals: Family and Scientific
Institutions (1660-1690)
Epilogue (1690-1730)
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index